recent essays appearing in books

Forest Understory, from the University of Washington Press, is an anthology of scientific, poetic, and essay explorations of an ancient forest in Oregon. Wild in the Willamette, from Oregon State University Press, is a guidebook/essay collection highlighting the mid-Willamette Valley, my home.

Poems and Nonfiction Prose

Written and Published in Portugal

Stratified Poem was written during my Fulbright in Portugal and published beautifully by Humberto Brio at his on-line journal Forma de Vida. "Sweat and Grit in My Actual Eyes," an essay concerning Emerson, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and a canyon in Utah, has appeared in the bilingual anthology Natural in Verso (Mariposa Azual Books, Lisbon). One of my photographs is featured on the cover.

processions: a video journal of motion dynamics

Fulbright in Portugal

From September 2014 through January 2015, I enjoyed teaching and writing at the University of Lisbon as a Fulbright lecturer. I conducted a graduate seminar in Cultural Foundations in Nature, Ecology, and Environmentalism and taught a course in visual culture, Imaging the American West.